The Most Beautiful Gardens Ever Written - A Guide (Paperback)

Are gardens anything more than collections of plants? Spaces for leisure activities? Extensions that protect the private house from the public road? Art objects appreciated by a relatively small group of connoisseurs? To consider such questions this guidebook invites readers on a tour of ten beautiful gardens as depicted in thousands of pages of fiction written by the most skillful of novelists over almost a millennium. From Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji and the ever-mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, to such Chinese masterpieces as the Chin Ping Mei and Cao Xuequin Story of the Stone, and on through the works of famous American, Australian, English, and European writers, these novels compound gardens as they exist within the culture of the time with the specific needs of fiction, tackling everything from planting plans to the activities that take place within the garden confines. When novelists write the garden it is revealed, again and again, as the site of peccadilloes that define the state of being human, and while these written gardens may not be places we would ever wish to visit, should they actually exist, a consideration of their role in defining humanity provides yet another way to experience and appreciate any real gardens we happen to encounter.

General

Imprint:	Oro Editions
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2016
Authors:	Jane Gillette
Dimensions:	228 x 139 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	116
ISBN-13:	978-1-935935-22-3
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Promotions
LSN:	1-935935-22-4
Barcode:	9781935935223

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